CIHR Planning Grants

The specific objective of the CIHR Planning Grants funding opportunity is to provide support for planning activities, partnership development and/or increasing the team’s understanding of the health research landscape that will contribute to the advancement of research consistent with the mandate of CIHR.

Deadlines:Faculty of Education Research Office: One week prior to the CIHR deadline. (2-3 weeks prior if you wish to have extensive feedback on your application. Contact Karen Kueneman.)Research Development & Services: At least 3 days prior to CIHR deadlineCIHR: June 17, 2013 (for a notice of decision November 2013)

Amount: up to $25,000 for up to 1 year

Relevant Activities: Activities may focus on, but are not limited to, the following:

Activities that assist potential teams of researchers, knowledge-users and/or partners in working together to identify research questions or emerging issues and priorities that could form the basis of a grant application;

Stakeholder consultations, including citizen engagement activities, regarding needs, gaps and opportunities in the health research landscape, priority policy issues and/or priority research questions, where such common understanding is currently lacking or requires further development;

Initial planning and discussion of a research project among potential team members including researchers, knowledge-users and/or partners to assess the viability of the research project and the partnership;

Conducting an environmental scan or preliminary synthesis of relevant literature, activities or programs;

Early-stage planning to determine possible commercial viability of a discovery;

Opportunities for knowledge exchange involving stakeholder linkages (to inform practice, care, and/or policy) that could potentially lead to an application to a funding opportunity;

Gatherings of partners, health researchers, and/or knowledge users where the main objective is to facilitate regional/national and/or international collaboration among individuals or groups from a variety of backgrounds (for example, building new and existing multi-sectored partnerships that include a significant number of participants from outside the conventional scientific community, consensus meetings, networking and partnership development events) interested in applying to a funding opportunity.

Applications: All applications must be submitted electronically using ResearchNET.